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Fabre, Guilhem; Grumbach, Stephane - HAL - 2012

R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The … perspective explaining the legacy of the past in today's choices. In the second part, we illustrate China's catching up strategy …

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Innovation and Leapfrogging in the Chinese Automobile Industry: Examples from Geely, BYD and Shifeng

Wang, Hua; Kimble, Chris - HAL - 2013

History provides numerous examples of incumbent market leaders being leapfrogged by newcomers that have exploited the opportunities offered by new technologies. In light of the growing number of ecological threats linked to the use of the internal combustion engine, can Chinese auto...

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China's new energy vehicles: value and innovation

Kimble, Chris; Wang, Hua - HAL - 2013

, new energy vehicles (NEVs) within China. Design/methodology/approach The broad strategic approach of two sectors within … the NEV sector in China, the pure electric vehicle (EV) and the low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) sectors, are compared … China's future industrial growth and is heavily supported. In contrast, the LSEV sector receives no support from central …

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The geography of innovation : challenge to technology policy within regions

Fadairo, Muriel; Massard, Nadine - HAL - 2009

The "Geography of Innovation" is based on the desire to give empirical foundations to the explanations behind the … pronounced spatial polarisation of the innovation activities. It focuses on an attempt to measure the spatial dimension of … survey this empirical literature in order to highlight the main results interesting for the innovation policy. This analysis …

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Assessing and ordering investments in polluting fossil-fueled and zero-carbon capital

Lecuyer, Oskar; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien - HAL - 2013

Climate change mitigation requires to replace preexisting carbon-intensive capital with different types of cleaner capital. Coal power and inefficient thermal engines may be phased out by gas power and efficient thermal engines or by renewable power and electric vehicles. We derive the optimal...

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Is the New Economy a Useful Concept ?

Paulré, Bernard - HAL - 2000

The present paper examines the meaning and usefulness of the concept of a New Economy. This construct, which first began to appear in the media in the mid-1990s, is utilised today with a variety of definitions and intentions. Having identified three possible denotations or orientations relating...

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New technologies and firm organization : the case of electronic traceability systems in French agribusiness

Galliano, Danielle; Orozco, Luis - HAL - 2013

This paper considers the relationship between the adoption of electronic traceability systems (ETSs) and the organization of firms. More precisely, it analyzes the respective roles of a firm's organizational structure, and organizational changes, in the process of ETS adoption in agribusiness....

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Routinization-Biased Technical Change, Globalization and Labor Market Polarization: Does Theory Fit the Facts?

Jung, Jaewon; Mercenier, Jean - HAL - 2010

There is now ample evidence that jobs and wages have been polarizing at the extremes of the skill distribution since the early 90s. Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003) have suggested that this might be due to technology substituting more easily for labor in performing routine rather than non-routine...

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Mitigation strategies and energy technology learning: an assessment with the POLES model

Criqui, Patrick; Mima, Silvana; Menanteau, Philippe; … - HAL - 2014

This paper explores various dimensions of the learning process for low-carbon technologies under different mitigation scenarios. It uses the POLES model, which addresses learning as an endogenous phenomenon with learning curves, and a set of scenarios developed as part of the AMPERE project. It...

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The economics of changing course: implications of adaptability and inertia for optimal climate policy.

Grubb, Michael; Thierry, Chapuis; Ha-Duong, Minh - HAL - 1995

technical innovation and systemic change in the energy sector is largely induced by need, and restrained by potentially large …

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